Importing from Multiple Scenes at once
I'm doing a project for client that requires me to animate some of their products. They use SolidWorks to produce their models and then I've been exporting them from SS as STL's and importing to 3ds max.
However! 3ds max only lets you import one STL at a time! This can become very time consuming when some of their products have 250+ parts. I've got around this by running a batch import script but all it does it convert the STL files automatically 3ds max files, leaving them in the same folder.
But this sort of leaves me in the same place as before, rather than importing STL's one by one I now have to merge 3ds max one by one into the scene.
Does anybody have or know of a solution to either merge multiple scenes into one or know of another script that not only converts from STL but also merges them into the open scene.
Cheers for listening!
However! 3ds max only lets you import one STL at a time! This can become very time consuming when some of their products have 250+ parts. I've got around this by running a batch import script but all it does it convert the STL files automatically 3ds max files, leaving them in the same folder.
But this sort of leaves me in the same place as before, rather than importing STL's one by one I now have to merge 3ds max one by one into the scene.
Does anybody have or know of a solution to either merge multiple scenes into one or know of another script that not only converts from STL but also merges them into the open scene.
Cheers for listening!
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http://www.scriptspot.com/search/apachesolr_search/batch%20import
Thank you, I found a script on there shortly after posting. Does exactly what it says on the tin - Saved me hours of countless button pressing
may I know where should I locate the Batch file?
I really don't understand as below.
"I simply have made A FEW modifications to process .stl files.
-- The script imports all .stl files found in a given directory (and sub-directories, if desired),
-- then saves them out as a .max of the root same name to the same source directory.
-- The import uses the most recent settings.
-- The default settings are shown in STLImportDefaults.jpg.
-- So, to run script with non-default settings, import one file manually and choose desired settings,
-- then run the script to batch process the files.
-- If you need to have different import settings for different files, either group them into separate
-- directories and process by group, or search for 'importFile' and see comment.
-- To turn this into a MacroScript launchable from a toolbar, select all text, then drag-n-drop it
-- onto a toolbar. That's it!
-- NOTE: STL import can take a good bit of time."